The Soundest Structure of Service to Humanity
» Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 at 03:33am |
The Master said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Being that everything the Masters have told us has a scientific basis back of it, that is generally aimed at our own individual best interests (as well as collectively, through Cause and Effect), this has always baffled me.
Perhaps it is for the simple reason that I have not, in my own experience, figured out what the true reason, as it relates to Natural Law, is.
When I defined my Definite Purpose in Life about 7 years ago, there came to me an idea or specific "structure" of Service (which I have not yet had the occasion to successfully put into practice), and perhaps it is not a new idea.
But in light of my recent failures:
To you who think globally and aim high, and to you who have come to know that we are compensated not for what we feel unjustly entitled to in blasphemy against Nature, but rather for the Quality and Quantity of Service we render in the Spirit of True Altruism, I would like to offer that structure to you — perhaps that you may make better use of it than I have had the opportunity to.
The idea is relatively simple:
It is the use of one form of service as a vehicle to support another form service — or the use of the "blessed" public's money (in exchange for service) to provide service to the "less blessed" of the public, without encouraging "something for nothing".
Stated differently, the act of giving to receive (or exchanging) as a way to truly give — without expectation of monetary gain.
The demonstration is this:
FIRST, it involves rendering service in exchange for payment, through the form of a business, where the customers are those blessed with excess income.
This is the First Act of Service.
SECOND, it then involves the greatest use of the excess profits gained from the service rendered to the consumers as a means of providing free service to those in need of it, who do not have or know of the opportunities readily available to others.
This is the Second Act of Service.
Stated even more simply:
The purpose back of giving to the public so that they may give back is to give back more.
I am a Man of Words — and perhaps little more.
But to you Men of Action, bold enough to build a system in order to receive payment for service rendered and humble enough to give back all that is beyond your immediate needs and Ideal Lifestyle, what say you?
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17 Success Principles From Napoleon Hill
» Saturday, December 19th, 2009 at 04:26pm |
Below you'll find 13 videos of Napoleon Hill discussing his 17 Success Principles — or Laws of Success. He covers material from "Think and Grow Rich", "Grow Rich! with Peace of Mind", and mainly "The Master-Key To Riches".
The total run-time is about 2 hours.
If you'd rather not watch the videos and would prefer to listen to them, I've recorded them into MP3s for instant download. It's just under 100MB and comes as a RAR archive.
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Allies of Mediocrity, Enemies of Progress and Knowledge
» Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 06:46am |
Dreamers of today, Leaders of tomorrow:
To you who aim above mediocrity and to you who are possessed by a Vision no other man has eyes to yet see, and who backs that Vision with persistent, continuous action not mere vain words and flowery displays of assumed Knowledge intended to impress, it may well do you much good to consider the following:
Before a Dream can be translated into physical reality, it must be created and fully visualized in the mind, down to great detail.
To you who already know this, you may also know it does not, generally, happen over any short period of time.
The ignorant, who know not these facts nor the science of great achievement, and who, of "little Faith", must see something before they will believe it, will not and, upon their current lack of understanding, cannot see this.
It is upon this fact that they call you men bold enough to dream without limitation arrogant, delusional, and perhaps even insane.
Yet to you of Wisdom, who know that to point out their ignorance directly to them would only be welcomed by insult, and perhaps rightly so, as it tends to violate Man's Greatest Prerogative — to live his own life in his own way so long as it does not trespass on the rights of others — endure!
For has there ever been any Great Benefactor of Humanity who did not endure poverty in realizing his Dream?
Has there been any Great Leader and Liberator of the people who did not endure the criticism of the masses while translating his Dream?
Let the first fool point him out to me!
For if this were not so:
Would we have had an Edison and his lightbulb?
Would we have had a Lincoln and his "free black America"?
Upon this proof:
Life presents us with our Greatest Adversity not to penalize us, as the coward would claim. Nay! Life seems to give us this unmined reservoir with the intent of motivating us to discover and utilize Nature's Laws, that we may make of ourselves better Instruments of Service to Humanity.
And those bold enough to bare the task, are compensated for their effort.
The cleavage between "rich" and "poor", who, through their own individual efforts brought them thus, is not dependent upon money as the mediocre seem inaptly misguided in concluding, but one of Altruism and Service.
For does he who gives but little service, to the least of his abilities, and in a spirit of malcontent truly deserve the same compensation that a man who gives an abundance of service using his own Time, to the very best of his abilities and, upon his own initiative, develops those abilities to enable him to provide better service, and in a spirit of Altruism?
Anyone who has even the slightest sense of Justice knows the answer.
Men are compensated not for their Talent nor Knowledge, as seems to be a myth common amongst the masses; men are compensated for the quality and quantity of service they render toward their fellow men under the spirit of Altruism, often at a great expense to themselves.
If this were not so, would we have had a Jesus who died in the name of Service to Humanity and whose true message still lives on and impacts society 2000 years later, under the direction of those who know its true meaning?
Thus, men of Talent! Men of Knowledge! —
Ask not your compensation for the mere possession of these Gifts. Nay! Demand compensation for how well you use these Gifts and to what extend they are rendered to the true Service and benefit of others!
For the mediocre may be unjust and unfair and feel entitled to more than their just dues, and even trespass against others and against Nature's Laws in order to satisfy their Greed.
The mediocre may demand compensation without effort, and thus intefere with the very individuals that truly allow civilization to thrive, and in so doing, slow progress.
They may attempt to undermine Great Effort through the indirect means of criticism, or they may attempt it through the direct means of financial sabotage.
They may attempt to hinder the seed from growing through the issues of Pity, or, if the seed has matured into a plant, they may attempt to uproot it through Envy acted upon through Anger and its bastard child, Revenge.
Fear not!
No great and honest effort goes uncompensated.
For Nature is a different breed of law enforcer — she pays back an equivalent for all service rendered, despite the successful conquests motivated by the vile impulses of any of us mere mortals.
Therefore, dream! And let no damned fool scorn nor discourage you for doing so!
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Think and Grow Rich -- FREE Audio Book Download
» Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 04:24pm |
For those of you who find reading a "chore", here's something I recently discovered that you might find helpful:
It's an audio version of Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich"... and it's free to all.
Not only that, it is the unabridged, original classic version.
One of my favorite films is the epic "Braveheart".
I find it interesting to observe that the character of William Wallace uses the exact philosophy Mr. Hill reveals in "Think and Grow Rich".
So to those of you who want to live your life on your own terms and truly get what you desire — and also learn how to protect yourself against the envious who will try to stop you from getting what they don't have the balls to pursue for themselves:
Download it, burn it onto CD, put it in your car's CD player and listen to it bit by bit whenever you're driving — or take a break from music and put it on your ipod...
Click Here To Download "Think and Grow Rich" -- Free Audio Program
P.S. Don't listen to ignorant people who tell you you're crazy when you start applying his prinicples. Remember, if you do what everyone else does, you have no choice but to get what everyone else has — when you behave differently, some will call you "crazy" in order to justify their own failures in life or in an attempt to stop you. It's not about you. It's about them and their envy.
P.P.S. Apply the principles in "secret" until it is no longer possible to your success. Remember, the coward-minded would rather sabotage you and your efforts then use that same time to build up their own life the way they want it.
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More Important Than Money
» Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at 11:46pm |
Don't we often find ourselves thinking something along these lines:
"Well, I'd like to do that or get that but I just don't have the money."
Is that true?
Upon first observation of the facts, it very well might be.
But is it the REAL reason that stops us?
Here's an interesting discovery I've made:
The money is NOT the real problem — it's just an excuse we use unconsciously, even if it is apparently true to the so-called "physical facts".
If you doubt this, you can quite easily prove that money is not the real problem by asking yourself one fundamental question, followed by a couple of supplementary questions:
"If I had the money right now, what would I physically need to do first and foremost to set what I want in motion?"
Then:
"To do just that one thing, do I REALLY need more money than I currently have?"
And finally:
"Am I currently capable or able to do just that one thing right now?"
If you find yourself answering "No" to the second question, you know money is, upon the TRUE facts of the situation, just an excuse.
And if you find yourself answering "No" to the final question, you will likely discover the real reason that's stopping you.
The seeming fact that the problem was a lack of money was really nothing more than a clever self-deception or alibi.
What you'll likely find is that its true purpose was to conceal the truth that:
"It's not me. It's the shortage of money. Therefore, I am not responsible and it is not under my power."
And if you take the above line of questioning or thinking and apply it to your situations in the near or immediate future, you will likely find that what's truly been stopping you is not the lack of money, but your ability to cooperate with or influence others, very likely due to a lack of self-confidence.
This has always been my experience.
I've found that:
Making more money seems to be a reflex of our ability to cooperate well with others, its basis being self-confidence.
It seems that as we progress in our abilities to establish harmony in relationships, money becomes a necessity.
I don't know the explanation for it, but I've found that necessities often have a way of taking care of themselves, especially when they're absolutely necessary.
There have been times when I've been on the street, literally not knowing where I was going to sleep that night.
Yet every time a solution has never yet not presented itself.
In the same way, it seems the money shows up when it's needed to take a step that truly requires it to move toward our purposes. And the strangest part about it is that, in my experience, it often appears without doing anything markedly different.
Therefore, the next time you start "excusing" yourself due to an apparent shortage of money, consider taking it out of the equation:
Do everything that you can accomplish in moving toward your purpose where the money is not necessary to complete it.
And when there is nothing more to be done without money, you may be surprised to discover that you already have it.
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The Second Step To Living Your Dreams and Visions
» Monday, September 14th, 2009 at 01:38am |
In Step 1 we discussed some straight-forward ways on how to define your Ideal Lifestyle and how to come up with the exact amount of money you'd need to make it a reality — or set the foundation.
Now let's take it one step further:
Let's discuss how to get started coming up with some ideas on how to get that money...
Most of us look to jobs for making money.
In fact, unless we had wealthy parents, we were probably taught that they are the only realistic way to earn money.
Perhaps we heard the subtext: "Businesses are for "other" people, not for us."
But if a job won't allow you bridge the way to living your Ideal Lifestyle because of it's restraint on time, schedule and location, it obviously becomes necessary to look for an alternative.
... unless, of course, there's a job that fits your Ideal Lifestyle.
But since more times than not this probably won't be the case, the other alternative is to start a business (or go into real estate) that can either operate without you or you can operate it while living your Ideal Lifestyle.
For that should be the primary condition of starting a business, to bridge the way to living your Ideal Lifestyle...
Then you work on it until it's mature enough to work for you.
Or in other words, you can replace yourself with other people if you want to.
And since the essential necessity of any business is its product or service, the first thing is to brainstorm and maybe even develop that before a sales and marketing plan is worked out.
So here's some questions I've found helpful.
Perhaps they may serve you too.
"What have I learned that others would want to learn?"
It doesn't matter whether or not what you've learned is "conventional", as long as practical use can be made of it.
"What skills do I have?"
Take a complete inventory based on your past work experience and especially your hobbies and interests, no matter how insignificant some may at first appear to be.
Go over each job you've ever had and list the things you learned from it.
"What are my strengths?"
List what you consider to be your greatest strengths.
These are things that you've always seemed to naturally excel at.
"What problems have I solved in my life?"
We tend to share similar problems with other people. And if you've found a solution to a problem you've had, there may be others who would benefit from it too.
Maybe it's a new way of doing something or maybe it's a make-shift or under-developed invention you've come up with.
"Can I work any of my above answers together to fit in with my Ideal Lifestyle?"
Consider taking a few days to think about how all or some of your answers could be used together to develop a product or service that you would have enough excitement and passion about to give you the necessary persistence to see it through.
"Can I foresee it generating the amount of income that coincides with the amount of money I need for my Ideal Lifestyle?"
With the product or service ideas you come up with, can you see it being possible to generate the amount of money your Ideal Lifestyle demands?
If you answer "Yes", you may very well have found your solution.
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The First Step To Living Your Dreams and Visions
» Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 at 12:29am |
Here's one of the most important questions you can ever ask yourself:
"What do I want my life to look like five years from now?"
(The same can be asked for one year or 10 years... or any number of years, but five is a good period to work with because it will, generally speaking, be a realistic timeframe to achieve what you want.)
Then we can further break that question down even more to get a clearer picture:
"What kind of lifestyle do I want to be living? What would I love to wake-up to and spend my time doing during the day?"
And more importantly:
"Who do I have to become and what do I have to do to make it a reality?"
Ask these questions solely from a place of how it's going to please and satisfy yourself — and ONLY yourself!
Now, if you're not sure how to answer these questions yet, I've found the best way to come up with some answers has been to ask myself this question:
"If money was not an issue, what would be the first thing I would do? The second? The third?"
... and so on.
Once you come up with a clear picture of your "ideal self-image" and normal activities and possessions that are a part of your ideal life, the next step is to figure out EXACTLY how much money or what kind of monthly income you'd need to make it a reality.
It MUST BE definite and concrete.
If you're serious about getting what you want in Life, open up a word processor on your computer or grab a pen and a piece of paper and brainstorm these answers RIGHT NOW.
I'm serious.
Do it and then come back and finish reading.
If you do, I can guarantee you that you've taken perhaps the most important step that most guys who "wish" a lot but only end up wandering through Life, never to achieve what they really wanted failed to do:
Detemine PRECISELY what they wanted.
I reckon that's the fundamental reason why they "failed".
In fact, the common trend discovered through research and studies done on why some people succeed while others fail has revealed that those who succeeded clearly defined and wrote down what they wanted, while those who failed didn't!
So do it.
Then, once you've completed that, come up with the amount of money you'd need:
Imagine that you're already living that "ideal lifestyle" and calculate all the expenses you'd have to support it.
I don't care if it comes up to $2,000 a month or $10,000 a month or $1,000,000 a year. I also don't think it makes much difference, except in the mind.
Just come up with a figure that would support that ideal lifestyle without questioning whether it's possible or not.
Then everytime you sit down to "balance your books" also take out your expense sheet for your ideal lifestyle and go over it too.
There's a very specific reason for this, which you'll discover if you do it.
And finally, write that exact amount of money down, place it where you'll see it often so that it forces you to think about it several times a day.
Furthermore, take it another step further:
Close your eyes at least once each and every day and visualize that money in your mind and picture what your life will look and feel like when you have it.
This takes no great amount of time and no great amount of effort, and one man can accomplish it just as readily as the next.
Do it!
And do it NOW.
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Quit Fighting "The System" and Create Your Own!
» Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 at 01:07am |
Have you ever met one of those people whose sole mission in Life seemed to be to adamantly condemn "The System", maybe even taking "admirable" but futile stands or protests against it?
You know the kind of person I'm talking about?
They're always complaining about the government, the corporate world and just about any organization or movement they disagree with or think is "unfair"?
Sure, many of their points may be entirely valid.
I'm sure I might even agree with them on several things.
But the one thing I disagree with them on is the issue itself.
The reason is this:
What good does it do a man to spend his entire life trying to change "The System" just so that he can prove he's right and it's wrong?
For isn't that generally what it's about?
Being proud of being "bright"?
Besides, is high blood pressure and dissipated energy a price worth paying for it?
Now, I'm not talking about worthy causes and changes like a "free black America" or women's suffrage...
I'm talking about what seem to be little more than mundane issues that appear to be more like "cope-outs" and excuses to avoid responsbility.
Maybe "The System" is unjust.
But so what?
If it's unjust, don't we have the decision to choose not to be a part of it?
That seems smart to me.
Arguing with something we have little or no power to change, even though our reasons may very well be "smart" and perhaps even "right", I consider stupid and ignorant.
Whenever I catch myself coming up with "intelligent" reasons why something shouldn't operate the way it does and I have no power to change it, I usually end up chuckling to myself:
"You know Jay, being "too smart" can actually make you stupid."
As far as I'm concerned, in our digital world with endless opportunity requiring little in "start-up" capital, blaming "The System" is a justification for laziness and lack of ambition — it's nothing more than an alibi we use to excuse ourselves of our responsibility for our own misery, poverty and unhappines.
To those who have become fed-up or angry at "The System", stop arguing with it.
So what if they're "wrong"?
And how is proving them wrong going to add to your happiness?
Some would say:
"Yes, but it would be very satisfying to have them scream: 'Okay, okay! I'm wrong! You're right! I admit it, already.'"
And to those, I would respond: "Don't kid yourself. Pride is the biggest obstacle to Happiness!"
There's an alternative:
Design your own system, and develop it around your own terms and conditions before you built it.
Then build it!
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